On radio, I loved Noel Edmonds's Radio 1 breakfast show - and Tony Blackburn. I can still hear those bloody jingles deep in my brain.
— Richard Quest
I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'
I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.
I have spent 25 years battling to tell people that business is important. People aren't prepared to understand that it's a complex piece of machinery.
I realize that everyone has their own road to travel in making this decision about when it's right to come out. I know that in my case, the worst fears never materialized. All in all, professionally, I know the work I do here every day is better because I'm honest about who I am.
It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this Important Story Of The Day, when actually, once you walk out the front door, it is people getting on with their lives.
Whatever happens to bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are gaining ground and more respect. Ethereum, for instance, has far more transparency.
I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.
When you travel on Christmas, for you as the traveler - whether you're in 1A or 39D - there is a mental state that you have to put yourself in: that you're traveling at the busiest time of the year, and you're going to take whatever comes your way.
I would have become a pilot if it wasn't for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.
You have to give an element of performance on television.
If you raise taxes on the rich, you don't raise much money. I mean, this is one of the things that the U.S. is doing, but it's doing it for political reasons, not for financial reasons.
People always want to get behind the image on the screen, and I'm not sure there is one. I don't put on an act.
New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.
If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.
The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.
Go to the Savoy for a classic British tea and to see what a $350 million renovation can do for a hotel.
I don't like the Sunday newspapers - I read them because I have to. 'Sunday Times,' 'Telegraph,' 'Independent' on Sunday - I find them heavy and too much! I prefer 'The Economist.'
I am comfortable being gay. Most of my adult life, it's never been a secret. I knew I was gay when I was in high school. I am just fortunate I have lived in two of the most gay-friendly places in the world: New York and London.
I live in the day. Yes, I make plans for tomorrow, but I don't get so consumed by it. The time you spend with your family and friends, whatever you could be doing, enjoy them now. I live in the day.
When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.
Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the 'haves' gather to strike deals with the 'have-mores.'
People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.
The fundamental rule of the business traveller must be nothing must stop you from getting there.
Every year, the World Economic Forum decides on a theme for its meeting of the world's elite in Davos, Switzerland. Usually, it's highfalutin nonsense that no one understands and everyone ignores.
If there are countries that discriminate against the gay community, they are the countries that I will not spend my own personal money. I will go for work there, but I will not spend my own money there. Why would I?
I may interrupt people or be nasty, but I am never rude. So every interview starts with a shake of a hand and ends with a shake of a hand.
Airlines the size of British Airways will need the A380 to increase capacity, and the 787 to increase frequency on heavily traveled routes and open up new long thin routes.
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.
I was fascinated by the fact that in Osaka, we saw people using their cell phones to pay for small goods.
I believe you leave opinions and views with your hat and coat at the door.
I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.
Whenever there's a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what's happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it's valid. If you don't do the second part, you're basically a bilge pump.
Buy one pair of knickers or underpants from Marks & Spencer. Then you'll truly be like a Brit!
Working for CNN, you help set the agenda for decision makers and industry leaders simply by doing your job. What the network covers and how we cover it affects people. I am not naive enough to believe I work in some 'pure' news vacuum.
You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.
I wish I didn't care about what people say about me, but I do.
If I remember back to when I wasn't open about my sexuality, I spent a great deal of time worried about it.
Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set, that is what they pay us for. They don't pay us to prattle on the television; anybody can do that.
There comes a point in every story where you have got a reservoir of knowledge, and you are then really just adding the substantial new facts to your understanding of it. That is the easiest situation, because you can call on that reservoir, but when you get a sudden story out of nowhere, like ebola, you don't have a reservoir of knowledge.
Malaysia Airlines is a robust airline - it's been around for many years. It has an excellent reputation, both for service and for safety.
The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering.
When I speak, I ask the people, particularly since there are many of us, 'Where will you spend your hard-earned money? Why spend it where it is not gay-friendly? Why should you spend your money in countries that are not gay-friendly just because they have beautiful beaches?'
People even describe the way I speak as sounding like gurgling with broken glass. Some people can't stand me; they hate my voice.
Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.
If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.
New Zealand's economy may be more immune... from the waves of disruption elsewhere, but I guarantee you, it's not that immune.
I was terrified about people knowing I was gay. I'd cringe inside at the idea that they'd be talking behind my back.
I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?
The reality is the three gulf carriers - Emirates, Qatar and Etihad - are forces with which to be reckoned. Strategic investments by co-operative governments have given them large fleets and huge airports. They have created a flourishing environment while established carriers languish.
